Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Levine

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

Abraham Maslow

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological height. It is as if psychology had voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction, and that the darker, meaner half.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Abraham Lincoln

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Alex Rodriguez

You must be present to win.

Charlie White

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

Bernie Mac

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

Jared Dudley

I think a team with a lot of veterans and the success they've had, makes them dangerous.

Brendan Coyle

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Daphne Oz

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Danielle Steel

I'm astonished by my success.

Dan Miller

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

Dan Millman

Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

Cornel West

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Cornel West

I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.

Cornel West

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

E. W. Howe

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

E. W. Howe

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

E. W. Howe

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Dwight Yoakam

Control success before it controls you.

Dwyane Wade

Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.

Azzedine Alaia

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Phillip Adams

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

With our youth and talent, we think this is a team that can not only be successful now, but be together for a long time.

Jason Kreis

With that kind of work, we're going to be a successful team this year.

Curtis Jackson

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.